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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineering Lead at Lovable'
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# Forward Deployed Engineering Lead at Lovable

- **Company:** Lovable
- **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lovable/f8590c0f-5374-4753-839b-e5c7315a71c2

## Job description

TL;DR – We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineering Lead to help scale the future of AI-powered software creation. You'll build and lead the FDE team and partner with our most ambitious customers to turn ideas into real products. This is still a hands-on role: you'll design, write, and ship production code alongside your team, while partnering with our other FDE leaders to shape how the function operates globally. It's a unique opportunity to scale a new discipline from scratch and solve problems that no one has solved before. Why Lovable? Lovable is the software creation platform that gives people the power to act on the problems closest to them. For decades, turning an idea into software required so much capital, technical fluency, and time that many ideas never came to life. Lovable is the counterargument: a platform for all people with ideas, ambition, and problems worth solving. From solopreneurs to small business owners to teams at companies like Adidas and Zendesk, people have built over 60 million projects on Lovable since its launch in November 2024. And we're just getting started. We're building a generational company from Stockholm, with growing teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Our team is small, talent-dense, and moving quickly, with a culture rooted in extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We look for people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world. Lovable is one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies and has been recognized on the Forbes AI 50 and CNBC Disruptor 50, reflecting our momentum as one of Europe's fastest-growing AI companies and one of the most ambitious places to build in this next era of software.

## About the role

Most engineering leadership roles move you away from the code. This one keeps you close to the craft and the customer. You'll build, develop, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers who partner with our customers at the frontier of what Lovable can do, solving hard technical problems across our frontend, backend and AI systems. The goal isn't just to make individual deployments succeed. It's to spot what should become part of the Lovable platform and act on it. As one of a small group of FDE leaders, you'll set the technical bar for the function and help define how it scales, from its engineering standards and ways of working to how it works with customers and our core product teams. If you want to build an exceptional engineering team without stepping away from building yourself, this is that role.

## What we're looking for

- 12+ years across software engineering, technical architecture, and customer-facing engineering
- Experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams
- A track record of remaining deeply hands-on as your leadership scope has grown
- Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals, including React and TypeScript on the frontend and robust backend development
- Strong architectural thinking and familiarity with distributed systems
- Experience owning complex technical engagements end-to-end
- Exceptional product intuition and ability to work directly with users
- Ability to move comfortably between writing code, making architectural decisions, leading engineers, and working with senior stakeholders
- Comfort operating with high ambiguity, agency, and velocity

Bonus if you've:

- Scaled a team or technical function from zero
- Worked on agentic AI systems or built with LLMs in production
- Led zero-to-one product development
- Worked in a founding or early startup environment
- Worked across high-growth startups, big tech, consulting, or enterprise AI

## What you'll do

- Build, develop, and lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers
- Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, needs, and hardest technical problems
- Design, prototype, and implement solutions alongside your team
- Own and guide projects end-to-end, from discovery and architecture through shipping and iteration
- Set the technical bar through architecture decisions, code reviews, and hands-on engineering
- Translate insights from customer deployments into foundational platform improvements
- Partner with other FDE leads to shape the function's engineering standards, rituals, and playbooks as it scales globally
- Contribute to core product strategy, technical decisions, and cultural foundations

Our Tech Stack

- Backend: Golang & Rust
- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- Cloud: Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, multiple LLM providers
- Tooling: GitHub Actions, OTEL, Grafana, Terraform, and more

## About your application

- Please submit your application in English - it's our company language
- We treat all candidates equally - if you're interested please apply through our careers portal

## About Lovable

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lovable provides an AI-powered platform that enables users to build apps, websites, and digital products through natural language prompts, automating the software development process.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Anton Osika (CEO), Fabian Hedin (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development, AI-Powered Development Tools
- **Target customers**: B2B, B2C, Enterprise, SMB, individual builders and developers
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Democratizing software creation by allowing anyone to build apps and websites by simply describing what they want.

## Products & Services
- **Lovable Platform (AI App Builder)**: A no-code, AI-powered platform where users describe an app or website idea, drop in screenshots or docs, and the AI builds a working prototype in real-time. Users can then refine and deploy with simple feedback and one-click deployment. Type: SaaS / AI Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $553.5M USD (as of latest round). Annual Revenue estimated between $100M-$500M USD. Annual Recurring Revenue surged by more than 30% in a single month earlier in 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Menlo Ventures (led Series B), Creandum (led Seed Round), byFounders, Hummingbird Ventures. Investors include 15 in Series B and 25 in Series A.
- **Growth Signals**: Explosive headcount growth of +646.1% year-over-year to 524 employees. Operates in 56 countries. Acquired Molnett. Active job postings at 115. Millions of projects built on the platform.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed of Development**: Allows users to go from idea to working prototype in minutes, dramatically faster than traditional coding.
- **Low Barrier to Entry**: Requires no deep coding skills, opening software creation to a massive audience of non-developers.
- **"Founder DNA" Culture**: The company actively hires for and rewards an ownership mindset, autonomy, and the ability to move fast—traits often found in founders. This creates a high-performance, low-ambiguity environment.
- **Transparent Decision-Making**: Uses a simple "IPS" (Issue and Proposed Solution) framework for decisions, made in writing and shared publicly across the company, enabling speed and clarity across time zones.

## Strategic Focus
- **Rapid Scaling**: Focused on growing the team to around 400 employees globally (from 146 in early March 2026), prioritizing engineering, product, and design.
- **Go-to-Market Expansion**: Building out sales, customer success, and marketing functions to support its rapid revenue growth.
- **Platform Development**: Continuing to enhance the AI app builder's capabilities, reliability, and enterprise features (as evidenced by a Product Manager (Enterprise) role).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture of Ownership & Impact**: The company explicitly seeks "founder-types" who take ownership, ship meaningful work from day one, and are comfortable with autonomy and ambiguity.
- **High-Growth Environment**: Being part of a company that is scaling revenue and headcount at an explosive rate offers significant career growth opportunities.
- **Global & Remote-First**: With offices in Stockholm, San Francisco, London, and Boston, and a remote-friendly policy, the team is distributed globally.
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Includes unlimited AI access, meaningful equity, paid parental leave, wellness & health budget, and relocation support.
- **Engineering & Product Focus**: The culture emphasizes speed, results, and tight feedback loops over rigid process, which is attractive for builders who want to move fast.

## Sources
1. [lovable.dev](https://lovable.dev/)
2. [Lovable Careers Page](https://lovable.dev/careers)
3. [LinkedIn - Lovable](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lovable-dev)
4. [Business Insider - Lovable Hiring Strategy](https://www.businessinsider.com/lovable-hiring-strategy-founder-dna-structure-vibe-coding-2026-3)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Lovable](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lovable)

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